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Show 5042 Johnson- 3055 A We operated it for the Mormon church. Q Did you have to make any returns on the number of passengers carried, anything of that kind? A Until in 1910, the county took the ferry over, then we had to keep an accurate account of all crossings and funds collected and send in to the county officers. Q Prior to 1910, say for ten or fifteen years prior to that, what was the average number of passengers crossed that ferry there in a year, roughly speaking? A Them times there was quite a bit of travel into Arizona and Mexico from Utah and northern points. There was a great deal more travel then than there was through the period of the time later than that, until the automobiles started. I suppose there would be -- oh, I don't know -- sometimes one hundred or one hundred and fifty wagons a year would cross. Q And has that, you say, somewhat decreased since then? A After the country south got pretty well settled up and they got to going around on the trains, then there was very little travel. I run the ferry there for the county after I went there in 1910, when didn't begin to pay expenses, didn't begin to pay my wages. They paid me. They wanted to keep the ferry up for their own benefit. After the automobiles started to come through, it has increased considerably. |
